A380 captain's pay

On 25 May 2007 08:24:29 -0700, Andrew Sarangan
wrote:

Do bigger airplanes require more skill to fly?


Responsibility... Just like a sea captain.

Look at it this way:

I'm f'n around @ OXC, and I pull out in front of Kingfish, who's on
short final in the Pilatus. A mess, local news, sad families, yadda,
yadda, yadda...

The same happens with 747's and you get this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenerife_disaster

Kabeesh?

BTW, I ALWAYS look both ways before entering a runway, especially if I
know Kingfish is coming in...

And FWIW, one of my best friend's dad is a retired PanAm B747 captain
who has owned light aircraft all his life, and he says "Yes, the 747
is more difficult to fly".

B A R R Y writes:

Responsibility... Just like a sea captain.

Then why aren't the requirements for sea captains just as stringent, and the
pay the same? The captain of an ocean liner has ten times as many people to
worry about as the captain of an airliner.

And FWIW, one of my best friend's dad is a retired PanAm B747 captain
who has owned light aircraft all his life, and he says "Yes, the 747
is more difficult to fly".

What else would you expect a retired 747 captain to say?

Airliners _were_ difficult to fly, in the days when they had no automation.
But times have changed. And Pan Am went out of business long ago.

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On May 26, 12:38 am, Mxsmanic wrote:
B A R R Y writes:

Responsibility... Just like a sea captain.

Then why aren't the requirements for sea captains just as stringent, and the
pay the same? The captain of an ocean liner has ten times as many people to
worry about as the captain of an airliner.

And FWIW, one of my best friend's dad is a retired PanAm B747 captain
who has owned light aircraft all his life, and he says "Yes, the 747
is more difficult to fly".

What else would you expect a retired 747 captain to say?

Airliners _were_ difficult to fly, in the days when they had no automation.


How would you know?

And , BTW, pilots still fly airliners which are substantially the same
as they were 50 years ago.


IOW you are talking stroight out of your as, as usual. ##



Bertie

But times have changed. And Pan Am went out of business long ago.

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"Mxsmanic" wrote in message
...
B A R R Y writes:

Responsibility... Just like a sea captain.

Then why aren't the requirements for sea captains just as stringent, and
the
pay the same? The captain of an ocean liner has ten times as many people
to
worry about as the captain of an airliner.

And FWIW, one of my best friend's dad is a retired PanAm B747 captain
who has owned light aircraft all his life, and he says "Yes, the 747
is more difficult to fly".

What else would you expect a retired 747 captain to say?

Airliners _were_ difficult to fly, in the days when they had no
automation.
But times have changed. And Pan Am went out of business long ago.


What else would we expect you to say, you clueless twit.

B A R R Y wrote:
Responsibility... Just like a sea captain.

if you define responsibility by, say, the number of
casualties you might get per goofs, then why are physicians
(who can kill/maim only one person at a time) paid more than
engineers (who can goof really big, and repeatedly, unlike
airline pilots); we should be on the very top of the pay
scale! :-)

--Sylvain

Sylvain writes:

if you define responsibility by, say, the number of
casualties you might get per goofs, then why are physicians
(who can kill/maim only one person at a time) paid more than
engineers (who can goof really big, and repeatedly, unlike
airline pilots); we should be on the very top of the pay
scale! :-)

Physicians are also less heavily regulated than airline pilots and some
engineers, which is also rather curious.

Mxsmanic wrote in
:

Sylvain writes:

if you define responsibility by, say, the number of
casualties you might get per goofs, then why are physicians
(who can kill/maim only one person at a time) paid more than
engineers (who can goof really big, and repeatedly, unlike
airline pilots); we should be on the very top of the pay
scale! :-)

Physicians are also less heavily regulated than airline pilots and
some
engineers, which is also rather curious.

You';re an idiot.


The answer to that one is obvious, but not to the autistic, obviously.


Bertie

On Sat, 26 May 2007 16:27:58 -0700, Sylvain wrote:

B A R R Y wrote:
Responsibility... Just like a sea captain.

if you define responsibility by, say, the number of
casualties you might get per goofs, then why are physicians
(who can kill/maim only one person at a time) paid more than
engineers (who can goof really big, and repeatedly, unlike
airline pilots); we should be on the very top of the pay
scale! :-)

A colleague of mine is a retired commander of nuclear powered
ballistic missile submarines. What would he be worth? G

I was using sea captains as a comparison, as they get additional
ratings and pay based on displacement tonnage. For instance, a super
tanker captain is usually better paid than a 100' whale watch boat
captain, even though the tanker will have less people aboard.

B A R R Y writes:

I was using sea captains as a comparison, as they get additional
ratings and pay based on displacement tonnage. For instance, a super
tanker captain is usually better paid than a 100' whale watch boat
captain, even though the tanker will have less people aboard.

The tanker is worth more money, and money is more important than people.